Lectures and Addresses
2026 IMS Annual Meeting: July 6–9, 2026 in Salzburg, Austria
https://imstat.org/2026AnnualMeeting/
The 2026 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026. The venue is Salzburg Congress (https://www.salzburgcongress.at/en), located in the heart of the city and close to the river. The meeting organizers (Kavita Ramanan, IMS President;…
Aleksandra (Seša) Slavković, Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean for Research in Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, has been selected by the American Statistical Association to present the 2025 ASA Links Lecture, “Praivacy (noun) Pronounced: /‘prā-və-sē/ Balancing Data Confidentiality and Utility,” on January 23, 2026, from noon…
Each year, the IMS selects speakers across a range of subject areas to deliver our named and medallion lectures at IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meetings. In 2026, these will be at:
SPA 2026 (Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications), June 15–19, 2026, in Ithaca, USA: Schramm lecture (Roland …
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University has announced that Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, is the 2025 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer.
Tibshirani will present “Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression” at 3:30 pm, Friday, October 17, 2025, in the Psychology Department…
Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
The Presidents’ Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the statistics profession, and granted (with some exceptions) to an individual who…